Quotes About Immediate Gratification

#1. Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

Brendan Dooling

#2. Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Paul Shaffer

#3. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#4. True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

Aristotle.

#5. I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

Demi Moore

#6. People aren't photographing for history any more. It's for immediate gratification. If you're photographing to share an image, you're not photographing to keep it.

Larry Towell

#7. We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

Faye Kellerman

#8. People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Carol Burnett

#9. Revenge is the capitalism of the poor: conserve the original wound, defer immediate gratification, fatten the first insult with new insults, invest and reinvest spite, and ke waiting for the perfect moment to strike back.

Aravind Adiga

#10. Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

Joan Didion

#11. Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.

Melissa Cady

#12. How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

Marcel Proust

#13. It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Ann Landers

#14. I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

John Maus

#15. Immediate gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

#16. Theatre is immediate gratification.

Chita Rivera

#17. If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

Clayton Christensen

#18. The world conspires against our souls by blinding us to the depth and glory of their God-given design and tempting us to be satisfied with immediate gratification.

John Ortberg

#19. For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Steven Holl

#20. And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Mark Strand

#21. Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Dan Ariely

#22. The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.

Scott Weiland

#23. It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee, instant rebates, instant messaging. Instant weight loss! Shall I go on?

Stephanie Perkins

#24. The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

Laura Wiess

#25. Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#27. Immediate gratification is a dream killer.

Bryant McGill

#28. I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

Jeff Bridges

#29. Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

Ralph Marston

#30. The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

Ray Romano

#31. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat For Lashes

#33. The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

Ashley Montagu

#34. You'll not find the life God intended for you in relationships seeking immediate and personal gratification - even the

Tony Dungy

#35. Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Julian Bond

#36. Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Bernadette McDonald